Talk:Amarendra Pandey

By Rutvi Dattani

Amarendra Pandey is Assistant Professor of English at Gujarat Vidyapith, as of November 2022. According to his university profile, his research interests include Culture Studies, Post-colonial Literature, and Literary Theory and Criticism.

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of November 2022 in the context of BJP government.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Pandey, Amrendra. “Questioning the Representation: Dr. Ambedkar and the Anxiety of Middle Class India.” Littcrit: An Indian Response to Literature 42.1, 2016, 9-20.
2. Pandey, Amrendra. “Constructing the National ‘Self’: Syed Ahmad and Liberal Education.” Anekant: A Journal for Polysemic Thoughts 5, 2016-17, 53-63.
3. Pandey, Amrendra. “Vegetarianism and the National Self: Gandhi’s Food as the Site of Anti-Colonial Struggle.” Anekant: A Journal for Polysemic Thoughts 3, 2015,: 23-34.